Licence Registers
Most casinos here name a licensing authority, and 367 name none at all (for another 52 we hold no licence record either way). The three authorities behind almost all of the rest differ enormously in what that licence is worth, and none of them says so. This is what we found by checking.
| Authority | Is there a register? | Can a player verify a licence? | What we measured |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anjouan | Yes, a downloadable file | We do not know. We have never tested a per-licence lookup; what we read is the register file itself, captured and diffed | 1,543 licences captured; 343 expired and still listed as valid (22.2%) |
| Curaçao | Yes, a downloadable file. We hold the edition dated 2026-08-14, carrying 661 licences | From that file, and separately one at a time by following the seal on the operator's own site | 49 certificates read from the regulator, 34 of them on 2026-08-19, the other 15 on a date our record does not carry, covering 26 licences; 46 of those brands have a page here, the largest single licence covering 7 |
| Costa Rica | No register, because there is no licence | No. There is nothing to check against | 83 brands name it; we have read anything that looks like a licence number off the site of 0 of them, because no numbering system exists |
The catalogue columns were measured on 2026-10-12. The register and certificate columns are dated captures and carry their own dates above; they are not re-read every morning.
Who licenses this market
Almost the entire offshore market runs on three names, and the shape of it is not what an operator's footer suggests.
| Authority | Brands in our catalogue | What that licence gets a player |
|---|---|---|
| Anjouan | 3,510 | A register you can search, and an expiry date it does not enforce |
| Curaçao | 490 | A certificate, if the operator publishes its seal |
| Curaçao (master licence) | 46 | A number issued under the old master-licence system, which the current register does not list |
| Costa Rica | 83 | Nothing. There is no gambling licence to hold |
| No licence declared at all | 367 | Nothing, and they do not claim otherwise |
Counted from our catalogue on 2026-10-12. A brand naming two authorities is counted under each. The master-licence row was added on 2026-09-16: before that, of the 46 brands naming it, 20 appeared in no row of this table at all and the other 26 appeared only under a different authority they also name. One of the 46 also names the current Curaçao authority, so it is counted in the Curaçao row as well as in this one.
The renewal wave nobody mentions
A licence is a subscription, and this market's subscriptions come due in clusters. Of the live brands whose licence carries a date, counted against the register we captured 2026-10-10 rather than against today:
- 537 expire between that date and the end of 2026.
- 1,472 expire during 2027.
- 517 had already expired on that date and are still listed as valid.
Renewal is not automatic and not guaranteed. A casino whose licence lapses does not usually announce it, so the date is worth knowing before you leave a balance with them. Every brand page here prints its own.
Two of those counts have a page of their own. We parsed the Curaçao authority's own register and counted how many of its licences carry an expiry date that had already passed on the day it was published. And the licences that cover several casinos at once now show which of them are past their expiry date, because one permission behind a dozen separately-marketed sites is a different risk when its own date has run out.
What that means before you deposit
A licence is only worth the enforcement behind it. None of these three carries the supervision a major regulator applies, so no complaint route reaches them from outside. They are not equivalent to each other either. One publishes a register and lets a fifth of it go stale, one publishes a register and lets two fifths of it go stale while still leaving a player to verify a licence one seal at a time, and one is not a gambling regulator at all.
The pages behind these numbers
- Anjouan. The full register: 1,543 licences, of which 343 are past their expiry date and still listed as valid.
- Licences that have already expired. The casinos still trading on them, named, with the date each one ran out.
- Curaçao licences: 49 verified at the regulator. We followed 49 Curaçao casinos' own licence seals through to the regulator's certificate and recorded what it says. 11 licences cover more than one brand.
- Costa Rica: there is no gambling licence to check. Costa Rica issues no gambling licence and keeps no register of operators. 83 casinos in our catalogue name it as their regulator, and we could read a licence number off the site of 0 of them. We hold a number of our own for 1, from the catalogue we import rather than from the operator.